Every year, malaria kills 1-2 million people and infects 300-500 million. 90 percent of deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is present in over 100 countries, threatening 40 percent of the world’s population.

Malaria remains the single largest cause of death for children under five in Africa — it kills one child every thirty seconds worldwide. Today a new, inexpensive, easy-to-take anti-malaria pill is being introduced by French drug maker “Sanofi-Aventis” in partnership with “Drugs for Neglected Diseases”, a campaign started by the international medical charity “Doctors Without Borders”. Sanofi-Aventis and the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) announced today that ASAQ, the new fixed-dose combination of artesunate (AS) and amodiaquine (AQ), will soon be available throughout sub-Saharan Africa. ASAQ is the first drug developed by the FACT (Fixed-dose, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy) partners, managed by DNDi in partnership with Sanofi-Aventis. Chloroquine, developed in 1934, was the first very cheap…

We went through all documents (143) about the World Economic Forum 2007 published on 24-January-2007 and created this Tag cloud with the top 100 key words. This is the first of a series of tag clouds (one for each day and one overall) we are currently preparing…

The World Economic Forum has selected 47 visionary companies as Technology Pioneers 2007. Each of the selected companies is involved in the development of life-changing technology innovation and has potential for long-term impact on business and society……Following the list of IT companies awarded for 2007 with a brief summary of their innovations, when, by whom,where they were founded together with the names of the leading investors for each company…